An audiovisual concert series at the intersection of the psychedelic and the avant-garde. ️Pataphysics pairs live ambient and downtempo music with evolving cinematic image compositions created in real-time.️ Sink into a multi-sensory, beautiful environment with immaculate sound and fully lose yourself in otherworldly sonic and visual explorations. This is a shoes-off event, get comfy.
Artists:
Todd Polenberg : Sound
Joshue Ott : Sound/Visuals
Ezekiel Honig : Sound
Professor Werden
David Lobser
7:30 Doors open
8:00 PM: Concert begins
There will be breaks between sets.
Ends ca. 11:00 PM
Delight Factory bar is open throughout the night.
Admission: $20
This is a shoes-off event. Wear comfy socks.
About the Artists
Ezekiel Honig's emotively warm electronic-acoustic music nestles into a comfortable, shared space between melodic event-driven ambient, muted techno, textural downtempo, and slowmotion house. Using these genres as reference points from which to stray, Honig utilizes everyday objects and spaces amidst processed instruments, tethering to our physical universe while eschewing any concerns of figurative reality. Plastic, metal, wood, and air coalesce with Rhodes, guitar, horns, and piano, creating a sound of contrast and contradiction, pairing inviting, fuzzy chords with clunky and dirty mishaps. Honig finds this sense of balance - of past and future, acoustic and digital, abstraction and concrete immediacy - by grounding himself in the idea that a sound can be a representation of infinite stories, emotions, possibilities, and simultaneously be just a sound to be used in a work of audio.
Todd Polenberg is an award-winning artist, engineer, and electronic musician who works with light and sound to create sublime otherworldly experiences. His work has been shown at Ars Electronica, Science Gallery Dublin, Mysteryland, Burning Man and featured in Forbes and Forward magazines.
Joshue Ott is a New York-based performer and software designer. Ott is the creator of superDraw, an instrument for live cinematic audiovisual improvisations with which he has performed at venues ranging from Mutek to Carnegie Hall. He also creates apps, including the popular Thicket, 3draw, snowDrift, Pitch Painter with Morton Subotnick, and the Variant series.
Professor Werden aka Matt Werden is a musician, creative audio wizard, and professor who currently bounces between the Catskills and NYC. He makes records, plays in various music projects, develops revolutionary ideas, and makes plenty of jokes. One time he even acted in a feature film because someone thought he looked like “Young Chuck” and he said yes before thinking too much about it. Matt also started Space Acres Comedy Night, the longest-running standup comedy show in the Catskills, which he plans to bring back as soon as the universe allows. You can follow him on instagram @profwerden so he can feel young again.
David Lobser is an innovative director and developer specializing in immersive digital media and therapeutic XR applications. He’s the founder of Light Clinic and Object Normal, combining expertise in creative technology with wellness-focused applications. Experienced in leading complex digital projects from conception to delivery, with a unique blend of technical proficiency and artistic vision.
Patphysics website: https://www.pataphysics.io/
Questions? Please reach out at delightfactorynyc@gmail.com.
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